I think our own survey here

Submitted by opulent_rigs on Tue, 2008-08-19 19:49

in the comments section, though very crude, also suggests that Vista is not worth it for enterprises.

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The release of Vista wasn't

Submitted by leathersr on Mon, 2008-08-18 05:05

The release of Vista wasn't even a blip in my company, but when the end of XP was announced and Office 2007 came with a new incompatible file format that was all the encouragement my company needed to finally make the switch to Linux. There are a few hold outs who are refusing to change, but compatibility between them and all the Linux desktops hasn't been an issue thanks to a great IT department. I even have my favorite FPS games running for after hours fun.

There is only 1 application used by accounting that won't run locally, so they all got terminal server logins to the last Windows server that remains and they run it remotely. I don't know if it was the release of Vista, the end of XP, or the rediculous Office 2007 file format, but somewhere in there Microsoft finally jumped the shark.

 

 

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Most enterprise are using XP

Submitted by dcrail on Sun, 2008-08-17 20:37

As is the corp that I work for.  We are scheduled to get new laptops in a month, all of my team were dreading minimum spec'd machines with vista.  Luckily a few in the IT dept feel the same way I do about Vista, and they will not support it.  So it's min specs, but with XP :).

 They also said that they will make the jump from XP when Win 7 materializes.

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Once I read

Submitted by PCIV on Sun, 2008-08-17 19:41

that a company moved to XP from 2000 but kept the 128mb RAM. Just maybe, they don't want to upgrade to 2gb just to run the OS?

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Enterprises aren't adopting because

Submitted by zeringue on Sun, 2008-08-17 18:28

Vista is not being deployed in the enterprise market because MS went and created a consumer OS and did not create a need for business to migrate to VISTA.  The best reasons for for businesses to adopt VISTA is NAC/NAP, Better control over the OS with group policies and better security out of the box compared to xp. When released IT admins really could not use VISTA to perform administrative tasks within the domain we had to remote to another server or an XP box to do the job we used to be able to do locally.  To use the NAC and better group policies windows server 2008 ADDS has to be used, guess what WS08 was not released yet. So Vista did not get deployed, the employees did not use VISTA, and did not want it, and did not buy vista for home. 

Vista should be installed like WS08, in 15 minutes its done. You have a GUI and then you turn on services needed run the machine.

DirectX 10 was a failure so what use is the os?

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Corp.IT has no need at all

Submitted by whitneymr on Sun, 2008-08-17 17:58

Corp.IT has no need at all to use Vista. It can't do anything in the workplace that XP can't so why spend the money and waste the time on it.

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I like vista

Submitted by ahenkel on Sun, 2008-08-17 17:13

I actually like vista, much like when XP came out it takes a little tweaking but I like the look it runs well on my rig and all my hardware works.

but I don't think i'd roll it out on an enterprise scale

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Just what are the glaring

Submitted by tehR0XX0Rz on Sun, 2008-08-17 16:31

Just what are the glaring performance issues?

I know that bloat is a big part of Windows, that the OS installs components users may not need without an easy way to remove or disable them. For gaming, Windows only offers to cripple the performance of any PC with layer upon layer of innefficiency. If only Windows could "turn itself down" a bit to allow PCs to run at their full potential when used for games. As it is, you need twice the computing power to get the same experiece as a cheap XBox 360. 

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aren't most of these

Submitted by AndyYankee17 on Sun, 2008-08-17 16:13

aren't most of these enterprises still using 2000?

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